Kathy Ferguson

University of Hawai'i System · Departments of Political Science and Women's Studies

Two anarchist women from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, Alexandra David-Néel and Lily Gair Wilkinson, combined their politics with radical engagement in walking. In both the literal sense, moving their bodies along the earth, and the figurative sense of calling on peripatetic tropes to express their ideas, they found walking to b...

Feminist theory is not only about women; it is about the world, engaged through critical intersectional perspectives. Despite many significant differences, most feminist theory is reliably suspicious of dualistic thinking, generally oriented toward fluid processes of emergence rather than static entities in one-way relationships, and committed to b...

Feminist theory is not only about women; it is about the world, engaged through critical intersectional perspectives. Despite many significant differences , most feminist theory is reliably suspicious of dualistic thinking, generally oriented toward fluid processes of emergence rather than static entities in one-way relationships, and committed to...

Ruth Kinna : Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. v, 266.) - Volume 79 Issue 1 - Kathy E. Ferguson

Anarchists and homosexuals have periodically occupied similar positions in relation to US laws and policies: both have functioned as the needed outside against which the proper inside of political order can be established and maintained. Both have blurred the relation of words to deeds, speaking words that are forbidden because the words themselves...

Printers and presses were central to the physical and social reproduction of the classical anarchist movement from the Paris Commune to the Second World War. Anarchists produced an environment rich in printed words by creating and circulating hundreds of journals, books, and pamphlets in dozens of languages. While some scholars and activists have e...

This article looks at the journal Mother Earth, a journal printed by Emma Goldman. Arguing that readers and viewers, as aesthetic subjects, are not pre-given individuals who then pick up a journal, this article maintains that audience members are themselves events, that they emerge from within the available opportunities to look and to read. Anarch...

Several feminist commentaries on Emma Goldman have focused critical attention on tensions between her anarchist feminist demands for freedom in personal relations and her longing for a stable and fulfilling relationship with a man. This article turns those inquiries around, asking why feminist readings of Goldman have featured those questions. I su...

In her reflections on archival research, Antoinette Burton notes that "the face-to-face encounter with archival collections can raise the intellectual stakes of a project," locating specific material within charged contexts of larger struggles (Archive Stories, 11). Burton's observation suggests that archival work pushes our thinking "outward" that...

This volume of essays on the militarization of the Pacific and parts of Asia is a welcome, much-needed contribution to a woefully small body of scholarly work. There is little study of the military (particularly of the US military) as an institutional presence in this region; those hardy scholars who insist on leveling a critical gaze at the milita...

Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were key figures in the creation of anarchist counterpublics in the US at the turn of the last century. Their work drew together immigrant subcultures, labor activists, progressive liberals, radical women, and international supporters to create a counterpublic within which anarchist ideals could achieve intelligib...

In Proust and Signs, Gilles Deleuze sketches Proust's characters as undergoing an apprenticeship to worlds of signs: formal and informal communicative signs; enigmatic signs of love; material, sensuous signs; signs of art. My paper applies Deleuze's take on representation, time, and love to theorize the development of Emma Goldman's anarchism as a...

Slavoj Žižek's analysis of ideology helps us to see that, far from hosting the end of ideology, the contemporary world is ideologically saturated. Ideology has come into its own via the development of doubling strategies that simultaneously articulate and hide the workings of ideologies. This is not a simple process of socialization or “brainwashin...

Ira Rohter, professor of political science at the University of Hawai‘i since 1968, passed away on June 22, 2009. He was well known in the community as a leading scholar-activist. Professor Rohter wrote the pathbreaking book A Green Hawaii: A Sourcebook for Development Alternatives . It helped others to see the possibilities for going beyond critic...

History and Human Existence - MillerJames: History and Human Existence: From Marx to Merleau-Ponty. (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1979. Pp. 296. $17.50.) - Volume 42 Issue 2 - Kathy E. Ferguson

Government, media, and medical accounts of Emma Goldman converged to create her public presence in the U.S. as a “dangerous individual.” The prevailing discourses constituted Goldman as violent, utilizing her alleged menace to distract attention from far more egregious violence against labor by state and corporate forces. Goldman responded by denyi...

During the last few decades, numerous scholars have become alarmed and suspicious of archives. No longer simply a tool of the historian's trade, the archive, Ann Stoler explains, "has been elevated to new theoretical status, with enough cachet to warrant distinct billing, worthy of scrutiny on its own."1 Derrida famously declared archives to be fev...

Explorations of identity, of self and other, of sex and gender, as embedded in Star Trek in attempting to present visions of different possible future societies: Star Trek as problematizing identity and gender as currently perceived.

Eine der grundlegendsten Änderungen des letzten Jahrhunderts im politischen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Leben Amerikas war das merkliche Anwachsen der Büro kratisierung von Arbeit und Politik. Immer mehr ersetzte die Büroarbeit die Hand-und Landarbeit; und diese Büroarbeit — zum großen Teil auf niedrigem Niveau und Routine — findet in zunehmend...

The increasing bureaucratization of politics and work has significant implications for the possibilities of meaningful citizen participation in public life. The requirements of survival in bureaucracies, either as a bureaucrat or as a client, require one to develop sets of skills and traits that perpetuate dependency and undermine autonomous politi...

The citizens of the'twentieth century have witnessed a continued expansion of the channels of political and social control. Post-industrial society has added the power of administrative hierarchies to the more traditional modes of domination by race, sex and class; oppression based on these categories is increasingly supplemented by a growing techn...

Within the Marxist theory of history and society, the concept of class consciousness has played a major, though problematic, role. The proper interpretation of this concept, embedded as it is within the complex relational framework of the historical dialectic, has presented a perennial problem to the interpreters of Marx, both the theorists and the...

Merleau-Ponty's Marxism - CooperBarry: Merleau-Ponty and Marxism: From Terror to Reform. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. 177. $17.50.) - Volume 42 Issue 3 - Kathy E. Ferguson

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